SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quobyte® Inc., a leading developer of modern storage system software, today announced that the Quobyte Data Center File System is the first distributed file ...

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Forget beards and sandals. The leading open-source file systems are enterprise-class big hitters, with advanced features and massive, often parallel, scalability. Sure, many are under development and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Media files now consume enormous amounts of storage, growing at a scale that has led to the ...

The proliferation of small files in distributed file systems poses significant challenges that affect both storage efficiency and operational performance. Modern systems, such as Hadoop Distributed ...

Cloud computing is a new technology which comes from distributed computing, parallel computing, grid computing and other computing technologies. In cloud computing, the data storage and computing are ...

Unstructured data is huge – in all senses. There is lots of it, and file or object sizes can be large. Go back just a decade and the predominant method of storage for unstructured data would have been ...

When I saw that the creators of the Andrew File System (AFS) had been named recipients of the $35K ACM Software System Award, I said to myself “That’s cool, I remember AFS from the days of companies ...

In order to share files on a network in the past "classic" Mac operating system, you had to access and set up items in several locations. First, you needed to enable file sharing in one location, then ...